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Enduring Values, New Combinations
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Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy – Michael and Jeannette Saalfeld P ’14, ’17, Energy Lab
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International College Elementary School
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‘A‘ali‘ikūhonua Creative Arts Center
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Indian Mountain School – Student Center
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KIPP Columbus – Battelle Environmental Center
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American International School of Johannesburg – Aquatic Center
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Charles River Middle School
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International College Middle School
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Interlochen Center for the Arts – Dance Building
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American International School of Zagreb
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Northfield Mount Hermon School – Gilder Center
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Jacob’s Pillow – Perles Family Studio
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American School Foundation of Guadalajara
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Governor’s Academy – Bill ’67 and Peter ’71 Alfond Coastal Research Center
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Bourne Intermediate School
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J.F.K. Elementary School and Holbrook Middle-High School
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Saigon South International School
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David Mindess Elementary School
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Lili‘uokalani Center
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The Perkiomen School-Student Center
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Credits
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Enduring Values, New Combinations Imagine, three different architecture offices, all working in the same American city and in fact in the same neighborhood—clustered together as design studios so often are, likely in some former industrial district gone chic. The first of the trio is a legacy firm, with racks of awards on the shelf and roots that stretch back to the glory days of high modernism; the second, a boutique design office, global in reach and prodigious in formal invention; and the third, a scrappy startup, nimble and resourceful, driven above all by a powerful social mission. To anyone involved with the building business today, these brief profiles should sound familiar. Each one represents a major archetype of the profession in the twenty-first century, as common as it is distinct from the others. Before revealing the punchline here it might be worth considering how these three came to be, and how, despite their geographical proximity, they manage to operate in such disparate ways. The Legacy Firm is a product of the immediate postwar years: the European-trained architects that mentored its founders stressed a collaborative, comprehensive approach, giving the office a sound organizational structure and allowing it to serve a broad institutional clientele. By contrast, the Boutique Design Office didn’t emerge until the turn of the millennium; formed in the rarified intellectual climate of the 1990s, that studio tends to put an emphasis on bold concepts and clear-eyed analysis, and its keen aesthetic sense helps it adapt to urban settings across the world. As for the Scrappy Startup, it was formed in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse—the designers’ focus on ecology and equity is shared by many of their contemporaries, while their in-depth knowledge of materials and building systems means they can deliver high-quality results even with modest budgets and tight turn-around times.
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Monitoring Lab Ideation Conference Office Simulation Fabrication Outdoor Classroom
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Just below the crest of a pu‘u pele (a cluster of hills), the Energy Lab looks down across the distinctive HPA Upper Campus in the northwest of the state’s sparsely populated Hawai‘i Island. With multiple buildings designed by preeminent Russian-born modernist Vladimir Ossipoff in the 1960s, the school is an architectural landmark. This condition demanded special care in the design of any new structure. The local vocabulary of wood, volcanic rock, and boardformed concrete that gives the campus its mellow, distinctly regional atmosphere would have to be adapted to a program of exceptional complexity, amplified by the singular rigors imposed by the LBC. The Energy Lab’s many novel mechanical features are integrated with the building’s academic mission. For example, the handling of airflow: along the building’s uphill side, a row of vents leads directly into a series of hinged compartments inside the high-ceilinged, brightly-lit research spaces; when opened, they allow a cooling breeze into the interior,
directing it up the airfoil-shaped wall toward a set of clerestory windows opposite, where the rapidlywarming air can be extracted via automaticallyoperated louvers based on carbon dioxide levels in each room. Tracked by sophisticated sensors whose data is recorded for subsequent analysis, the arrangement is an intentional mix of humancontrolled and automated elements, every part of it allowing students and staff to participate directly in the operation of the building. Or consider the concrete walls, wood decking, glue-laminated beams, metal roofing, and other materials out of which the whole of the Energy Lab is made. Under the LBC’s stringent guidelines, the erection of the structure produced no construction waste; many of its most important elements came directly from the island (notably the aggregate for its concrete frame, which was extracted from a nearby hillside) or from locations as close to the islands as possible.
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HPA Energy Lab
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HPA Energy Lab
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International College Elementary School
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‘A’ali’ikuhonua Creative Arts Center
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‘A’ali’ikuhonua Creative Arts Center
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Indian Mountain School Student Center
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KIPP Columbus Battelle Environmental Center
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American International School of Johannesburg Aquatic Center
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International College Preschool and Middle School
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Interlochen Center for the Arts Dance Center
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American International School of Zagreb
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Jacob’s Pillow – Perles Family Studio
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Governor’s Academy – Bill ’67 and Peter ’71 Alfond Coastal Research Center
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Governor’s Academy – Bill ’67 and Peter ’71 Alfond Coastal Research Center
Bourne Intermediate School
Right along the line where Cape Cod begins, before it fully stretches out over Nantucket Sound toward the Atlantic Ocean and curls back into itself toward its eponymous bay, the Cape Cod Canal softly winds across a thin strip of land, eventually flowing into Buzzards Bay. On either side of this waterway sits the town of Bourne, bisected into two sections generally regarded as the “land” side and the “cape” side.
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Bourne Intermediate School
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J.F.K. Elementary School and Holbrook Middle-High School
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Saigon South International School
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Saigon South International School
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Lili‘oukalani Center
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The Perkiomen School – Student Center
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The Perkiomen School – Student Center